Author: R. M. Rilke

Cited by

• Salman Rushdie (2)
  • IN: The Ground Beneath her Feet (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Set up no stone to his memory. Just let the rose bloom each year for his sake. For it is Orpheus. His metamorphosis in this one and in this. We should not trouble about other names. Once and for all it's Orpheus when there's singing...
    FROM: Sonnets to Orpheus (translated by M.D. Herter Norton, (1942), Poem, Bohemia
  • IN: The Ground Beneath Our Feet (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Set up no stone to his memory. Just let the rose bloom each year for his sake. For it is Orpheus. His metamorphosis into this and that. We should not trouble about other names. Once and for all it's Orpheus when there's singing.
    FROM: Sonnets to Orpheus (trans. by M. D. Herter Norton), (1922), Poem, Bohemia/Austria
• Elif Shafak (1)
  • IN: Three Daughters of Eve (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What will you do, God, when I die? When I, your pitcher, broken, lie? When I, your drink, go stale or dry? I am your garb, the trade you ply, You lose your meaning, losing me.
    FROM: The Book of Hours, (1905), Book, Bohemia/Austria